Vocabulary: 邯郸记
- Youzhou, ancient province in north Hebei and Liaoning; Fanyang 範陽|范阳 ancient city near modern Beijing
- to decline with sincere thanks
- key job; important position
- spacious; wide; lenient
- notes on poetry, an essay genre consisting of informal commentary on poems and poets and their lives (old); a genre of narrative literature interspersing prose with poetry, popular in the Tang and Song dynasties
- 100 million
- a wooden or bamboo pen for sheep or cattle; wood or bamboo trestlework; a warehouse; (computing) stack
- supreme; paramount; above all else
- ring; ringtone; bell stroke; tintinnabulation
- as the saying goes...
- 簸 bǒ: 簸 bo3: to winnow; to toss up and down簸 bò: 簸 bo4: used in 簸箕[bo4 ji1]
- to fall over; to stumble; (fig.) to suffer hardship; to be in desperate straits
- the three energies of Chinese medicine: 精[jing1], 氣|气[qi4], and 神[shen2]
- sunshine; to shine upon
- surname Tan
- tasty; to taste good
- background (academic and work); curriculum vitae; résumé
- Xia Dynasty (2070-1600 BC)
- Imperial Court of Judicial Review
- Court of imperial stud, office originally charged with horse breeding; Taibus banner in Xilingol League 錫林郭勒盟|锡林郭勒盟[Xi1 lin2 guo1 le4 Meng2], Inner Mongolia
- belly; skin; to state; to pass on information; to display
- Guozijian, the highest educational administrative body in imperial China, in some dynasties also functioning as the highest institution of academic research and learning (Imperial College, aka Imperial Academy)
- to offer a libation; person who performs the libation before a banquet; senior member of a profession; important government post in imperial China
- ninth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; ninth in order; letter "I" or Roman "IX" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; ancient Chinese compass point: 345°; nona
- autumn rain
- essay
- subordinate; underling
- name card; business card
- title; official rank
- everything clear and orderly (idiom); neat and tidy
- "person" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 9)
- formidable opponent
- (bound form) narrow; (bound form) a defile; a narrow pass
- 中庸 zhōng yōng: 中庸 zhong1 yong1: golden mean (Confucianism); (literary) (of person) mediocre; ordinary中庸 Zhōng yōng: 中庸 Zhong1 yong1: the Doctrine of the Mean, one of the Four Books 四書|四书[Si4 shu1]